On 12/12/14 15:25, Martin Brandenburg wrote: > Riley Baird <bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4...@bitmessage.ch> wrote: > >> On 07/12/14 23:42, Kaspars Bankovskis wrote: >>> Your changes to the system will be very small, and most of the time >>> you'll be just renaming 'openbsd' to something else, and syncing back >>> changes from upstream. If you have time for that, lucky you. But there >>> are more useful things to do, don't you think so? >> >> It shouldn't be that hard if I only merge security fixes, and do an >> upgrade with each major point release. > > Haha. Not when you change the name. Do you know how much software > decides what to do based on what uname returns? Too much.
I am pretty sure that OpenBSD cannot use its trademark rights to force derivative distributions to change the output of uname. I just won't change that. > Not to mention that for some reason the only firmware you're worried > about is the kind you know about. Are you refusing to buy hardware that > has a firmware burned into a ROM? For that matter, are you refusing to > buy hardware that has a closed-source circuit layout? When this is practical to do so, yes, I will. > You're planning on spending a significant amount of time doing something > that is not only completely useless but also illogical in your own > idealogy. > > -- Martin
